Freelancer

Allowing self-employed professionals to choose the amount of social security contributions they want to pay does indeed satisfy the long-time request for a rationalization of the burdens imposed by the social security legislation introduced in 2016 and known as the Katrougalos law, after the labor minister at the time, Giorgos Katrougalos. 

The family business in Bulgaria has expanded. In the past 2 years 1,219 new companies have been registered in the country. The number of people employed at these companies increased with over 15,000 people (3.8%), the national statistical reads, BNR reported.

Revenues so far for EFKA, the unified social security fund covering all insured Greek employees, including self-employed professionals, have been disappointing and the next few months until the end of year will be crucial to its financial health.

Some 1.2 million freelance professionals and small companies are set to come under the lens of the tax authorities, which will be scrutinizing their last five years of activity, as the head of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue Giorgos Pitsilis has issued a decision setting new criteria concerning their monitoring.

Many motorcycle couriers who work on a freelance basis are demanding that the companies they work for integrate them into the social security system.

Entering the world of freelancing is not the easiest thing to do.

The decade-long crisis has decimated freelance and self-employed professionals in Greece. Their declared income has shrunk by 60 percent while their number has fallen 40 percent over that time.

The Romanian Journalists Union launches on Friday, on its 18th anniversary, the MediaSind TV online platform, the union said in a release. "MediaSind TV, the new project to be launched today, will be an online communication platform for everyone in the big media family. MediaSind TV will be the instrument through which the voice of union members will be heard.

The country's highest administrative court has ruled that the state cannot charge the levy for the exercise of a profession by freelancers in the first five years of their new occupation, which may lead to an increase in the state's dues to Greek taxpayers.

he growing phenomenon of co-working spaces - places where individuals can rent a desk of their own while sharing a range of other facilities with their co-tenants - is as indicative of the changing nature of work as almost any metric you care to name, writes the Guardian.